Improvement in clothes-line



UNITED STATE JOHN G. AMES AND PRESTON A; AMES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-LINE FASTENERS.

Specification formingv part of Letters Patent No. hllllI-Dfl, dated June 24, 1873; application filed June 5,1813.

`To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN G.Au11s and PRESTON A. AMES, of Baltimore city and Statc'ot' Maryland, have invented a new and.

Improved Clothes-Line Hook and Automatic l1`astening; and We do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact 'description ofthe saine, reference heilig had to the y accompanying drawing forming part oi' this specilication, in whichf Figure l is a perspective view of a portion of a VJfence with my hook applied thereto. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views ot' the hook.

The invention relates to a neat, detachable,

4and automatic fastening whereby clothes-lines may be secured-to a yard-fence, as hereinafter.

fully described and subsequently claimed. I

1u the drawings, A represents an ordinary yard-fence, to which is usually attached the end of a clothesline by means of a nail or hook driven into the side or 'top thereof'. B is a rectangular fence-grapple made of metal, having the slot I) in its longest downwardlyprojecting piece, and on each side of said slot a top open bearing, b. (l is the clothes-hook, which is provided with the journals cc, that res't in the bearings b b', and with the rearcain or projection c at an obtuse angle to the shank. f

The application is as follows:

The hook C being raised in the bearings Z1 b above a horizontal plane allows the grap' clothes-lines, consisting of the ferme-grapple- B having slot and bearings b b', and the linehook C having journals c c, and rear projection o', together applicable in the manner described.

JOHN G. AMES,

I PRESTON A. AMES. v,Witnesses B. S. RosEBERRY, ALEXANDER HILL.

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